Secondary menu

Micah Albert Wins First Place in World Press Photo Contest

Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at Nairobi's Dandora dump, which spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she sometimes comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. “It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking [trash],” she said. Image by Micah Albert. Kenya, 2012.

The British Journal of Photographyspoke to members of the jury to hear which images resonated strongly for them. Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and World Press Photo 2013 jury member, spoke about Micah's winning image, saying that "The image that moved me especially was of a woman reading a book, sitting among garbage...It is a gorgeous image – so full of hope. News is not often filled with images of hope."

Meghan is a photojournalist and multimedia producer. She received her degree in journalism with a minor in anthropology from Boston University. At Pulitzer Center, she designs ebooks and promotional...